Massimo Candela
Principal Engineer at NTT Ltd.
Netherlands
Summary
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Top SchoolMassimo Candela is a Principal Engineer with 14 years of experience building large-scale tools for collecting, analyzing, and visualizing Internet-scale network data, currently driving platform and tooling work at NTT Ltd. He has a strong track record at RIPE NCC and NTT automating one of the largest Tier‑1 IP backbones and creating a globally deployed open BGP monitoring solution with 400+ installations. Massimo blends deep research grounding (PhD-level computer science) with hands-on engineering, having led projects like RIPE Atlas and RIPE IPmap that are used millions of times per day by operators. An active contributor to the network measurement community, he chairs working groups at both RIPE and LACNIC, bridging operational needs and research. Known for turning complex routing and measurement problems into practical, production-grade systems, he also brings entrepreneurial experience from founding web startups and leading small engineering teams.
14 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree, Computer Science, Master's degree, Computer Science at Università degli studi Roma TREDoctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science at Università di Pisa
Italian, English, Spanish
Github Skills (57)
monitoring10
misconfiguration10
topology10
matching10
validation10
internet10
querystring10
targets10
evolution10
bgp10
network10
credit10
loss10
server-side10
web-application9
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
massimocandela/bulk-whois-parser
Nov 2020 - Jan 2023
A parser for bulk whois data
Contributions:55 releases, 93 commits, 5 PRs in 2 years 2 months
parsersdatabase-accesswhoiswhois-dataparser
massimocandela/fast-file-logger
Apr 2021 - Oct 2022
Contributions:10 releases, 20 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 6 months
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